Brits: What percentage of Brits REALLY support the monarchy?

I'm under the impression that it is the majority...I'm not asking for an opinion, I just want to finally know what the real percentage of Brits is. (Is the level of support higher in England than the rest of the countries?)

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Best Answer: I should think it is somewhere in the region of 99.9% dear boy according to an unbiased poll conducted outside the gates of Buckingham Palace amongst the British tourists congregated there.
I believe the .1% was a disaffected ex-employee of the Palace who had just been given his cards for kicking one of the Queen's corgis.

Every poll I have seen shows support above 70%. The highest I've seen was in the recent golden jubilee year around the time that the Queen mother died, that was 82%. It goes up and down, but tends to stay above 70% and support is different for every member of the RF, with the Queen obviously having the highest support.

The break down in Britain:

Loyalists in Northern Ireland will obviously be strong supporters. In certain areas of Norther Ireland you can actually see where people have painted giant murals of the Queen on the side of buildings, however NI also has a large republican community that is also very vocal (sometimes violently so).

Northern Wales is more loyal than southern Wales. You'll find a lot of republicans in the south, but the farther North you get their numbers will dwindle.

Scotland tends to have a lot of republicanism, but I think it's probably stronger in the cities and then eases up in the country.

England has its pockets of republicanism, particularly in the North and in the cities, but the country side tends to run loyal.

I'd say two thirds of republicans are simply stupid and just don't understand how the government works or what the head of state does, you can find some examples of this in these answers. Many people don't seem to understand that if the monarchy were abolished we would still need a head of state, but that they would be a politician who would still need money to pay for head of state expenditures. The money the Queen gets wouldn't all of sudden go to hospitals if she quit, it would just now go to a politician. The other non-ignorant republicans are those that want to be able to vote for their head of state, which while I disagree with is at least valid reasoning.

a large percentage support the queen, but when she dies i have a feeling that this high percentage will soon become a minority. charles has definitely not been forgiven for diana's death. would we want him as king ? don't think so.

It is important to note that the United States presidential election of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey won 61.1% of the national popular vote, which remains the highest popular-vote percentage over a race with actual opponents.

In the United States presidential election of 1820 President James Monroe and Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins ran effectively unopposed and were re-elected at 80.6%.

So in light of those numbers the support of the monarchy is actually a very high percentage.

The 18% of republicans are probably balanced out by an equal percentage of rabid royalists.

For every true republican, there are probably a half a dozen "grumblers".
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Heads of state cost money. Three points
1) The cost of every presidential election is now much higher than the cost of the monarchy for four years.
2) The cost of presidential travel is now annually more than the cost of the monarchy- (civil list, payroll, palace maintenance, and royal travel). Presidential travel is a huge massive logistics operation. The air-force one is just the tip of the iceberg, and that costs $100K per hour.
3) The cost of the executive office of the president is about $1.20 per person per year. Compares with the 60-70 pence of the monarchy.
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The British monarchy costs less per person than most monarchies around the world, like Sweden, Denmark, Japan, etc.
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Third world presidencies are often extremely expensive, often costing as much or more than first world presidencies.

To be honest with you I think that the only reason that the monarchy survived and will continue to survive for many years to come is that us Brits are to pessimistic to ever have enough faith in a politician to become a republic.